Flaxman's outline drawings illustrating Homer's Iliad Venus wounded conducted by Iris to Mars. Diomed casting his spear against Mars. This scene is one of several designs that the English sculptor and draughtsman John Flaxman (1755–1826) did to illustrate passages from the Greek epic poet Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, a commission he had been given by Georgiana Hare-Naylor while he was living in Rome. It represents Venus wounded and conducted by Iris to Mars. It was done 1793.

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